Warhammer maker Games Workshop says it banned its staff from using AI in its content or designs and it is taking a "very cautious" approach to protect its IP (Philip Stafford/Financial Times)
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Warhammer maker Games Workshop says it banned its staff from using AI in its content or designs and “will be maintaining a strong commitment to protect” its IP
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Sources: Google will start developing and making high-end Pixel phones like the Pro and Fold from scratch in Vietnam in 2026; the Pixel A remains in China (Lauly Li/Nikkei Asia)
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Google to develop and make high-end phones in Vietnam this year
Move comes as Apple plans to achieve a similar milestone for iPhones in India
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Sources: Google will start developing and making high-end Pixel phones like the Pro and Fold from scratch in Vietnam in 2026; the Pixel A will remain in China
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A profile of Eric Migicovsky's Core Devices, a five-person company that he says is "not a startup" and aims to be "sustainable", as it builds new Pebble devices (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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Pebble founder says his new company is 'not a startup' | TechCrunch
Pebble's founder talks about how his new company is doing things differently.
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A profile of Eric Migicovsky
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PJM, the nonprofit operator for a 13-state power grid across the US, expects 4.8% average annual power growth over the next decade driven by the AI boom (Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/power-grid-ai-data-centers-1235f296?st=aNCfNr&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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PJM, the nonprofit operator for a 13-state US power grid, expects power demand to grow 4.8% per year on average over the next decade, driven by the AI boom
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The US House passes a bipartisan bill to expand US export controls to restrict Chinese companies' remote access to US AI chips from data centers outside China (Juro Osawa/The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/house-passes-bill-limit-chinas-remote-access-u-s-chips
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The US House passes a bipartisan bill that expands export controls to restrict Chinese companies
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Researchers at OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are studying LLMs like living things, not just software, to uncover some of their secrets for the first time (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
The new biologists treating LLMs like an alien autopsy
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Researchers at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and elsewhere are studying LLMs as if they were living things, not just software, to uncover some of their secrets
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A look at WhatsApp's enormous global reach and influence, and how the messaging app became the dominant platform for everyday conversation worldwide (Sam Knight/New Yorker)
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How WhatsApp Took Over the Global Conversation
The platform has become a core technology around the world, relied on by governments and extended families alike. What are we all doing there?
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A look at WhatsApp
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Microsoft warns Chinese companies, especially DeepSeek, are winning AI adoption outside the West, gaining significant market share in the Global South (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
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Microsoft warns that Chinese companies, especially DeepSeek, are winning AI user adoption outside the West, gaining significant market share in the Global South
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The NYC token, launched by ex-New York City Mayor Eric Adams on January 12, saw its market cap drop from ~$600M to ~$100M after suspicious liquidity activity (Decrypt)
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Eric Adams' NYC Token Crashes Amid Liquidity Extraction Allegations - Decrypt
On-chain data shows unexplained liquidity withdrawals as Eric Adam’s NYC token’s market cap continues to bleed.
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The NYC token, launched by former New York City Mayor Eric Adams on January 12, saw its market cap drop from ~$600M to ~$110M, after USDC liquidity manipulation
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Sources: Balderton cashed out ~$2B of its Revolut stake in the past year, turning an early Β£1M bet into a historic European VC win; its fifth fund returned 25x (Financial Times)
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Sources: Balderton cashed out ~$2B of its Revolut stake in the past year, turning an early £1M bet into a historic European VC win; its fifth fund returned 25x+
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